The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . Donnerkeil, Donnerstein, gros Krot-tcnstein, Schlegel, Straalhamer, Stralkeil, Stralstein,and Strapfeil ;and the Italians, Sagetta, a word which they also applied to theglossopetra (of which lower down). The ceraunia is exactly like awedge. They generally have, where the equilibrium is ( in thecentre of gravity) a very round hole, one side of which is larger thanthe other as the holes that are made in hammers are. And as allthese stones look like hammers, wedges, hatchets, plough-shares(socs ?) or simila
The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . Donnerkeil, Donnerstein, gros Krot-tcnstein, Schlegel, Straalhamer, Stralkeil, Stralstein,and Strapfeil ;and the Italians, Sagetta, a word which they also applied to theglossopetra (of which lower down). The ceraunia is exactly like awedge. They generally have, where the equilibrium is ( in thecentre of gravity) a very round hole, one side of which is larger thanthe other as the holes that are made in hammers are. And as allthese stones look like hammers, wedges, hatchets, plough-shares(socs ?) or similar instruments which have hobs for handles, somehave thought that they were not the arrows (bolts) of the thunder,but iron instruments changed to stone by time. But it is a belief soconstant and approved by so many that the ceraunia is thethunderbolt, that if any one would combat it, he would seem outof his senses. He cites Georgius Agricola, Kentmannus, andConradus Gesnerus, and gives the following figures of cerauniawhich clearly show that we would have been all treated as madmen.
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